Editing Warhammer 40,000/8th Edition Tactics/Adeptus Ministorum (section)

===Melee Weapons===
*'''Chainsword''': A nearly worthless option for a Canoness - c'mon, you can find 4 points for a power sword. That said, our Superiors can take one of these for free without having to surrender their bolter - unless you're taking a better melee weapon (Celestians, maybe), always throw in the free chainsword. It's not like you'll ever wish you *didn't* have it!
*'''Power Weapons''':   Each type of Power Weapon has its own profile now, so pick the right one for the situation (almost always the maul). All Power Weapons have a damage value of 1:
**'''Power Sword''': AP-3. Worse than the maul against almost every target that you will encounter on the table. Low Toughness has generally poor save, S3 is too little against armoured targets. At least they will remove armour saves after the wound roll. The only good target might be folks like Eldar, where you're likely to find T3 with a 3+ save.
**'''Power Maul''': S+2 AP-1. Broadly the most useful for sisters. S5 is an important wound roll 'breaking point' in 8th ed. Wounding marines on 3's and reducing them a 4+ armor roll is good. You can threaten wounding T5 marine bikes on 4's and T8 models on 5's as well. If your opponent has good invulnerable saves (i.e. Terminators w/ Stormshields & Thunder Hammers) the AP-1 won't matter too much and is arguably one of the best weapons against them (they just roll their 3++ Invul save if you have more AP than -1). Special mention goes to to Bloody Rose (S+2 AP-'''2''').
 
**'''Power Axe''': (Legends) S+1 AP-2. The one you want for T2,3, 6 and 7. So Eldar and maybe IG
**'''Blessed Blade:''' The best out of any Power Weapon. S+2 AP-3 D1d3. If you want to hurt everything, take this. Exclusive to the Canoness.
*'''Eviscerator''': (Legends) This heavy chainsword is a two-handed monster: Sx2, AP-4, D1d3, ''-1 to hit''. The big seller here is its monstrous AP and good damage. Remember that re-rolls normally happen before modifiers, but the Zealot ability allows rerolls of any hit roll, not just fails. An Eviscerator-armed Canoness rolling a natural 2 is a miss. 11pts as of the Legends update. Good, but you should probably use the Blade of Admonition relic instead for your Canoness. The relic performs better except against T6. It's <s>a trap</s> WONDERFUL on your Priests with a base WS4+ and "ZEALOT", they'll hit hard <s>but they won't</s> AND hit 55.55% of the time.